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Permaculture Design Certificate Course
Shambala Permaculture Farm, Permaculture Design Certification Course August 9-24, 2013
14 full-day Classes, 72 Curriculum Hours.
Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that mimic and enhance natural ecologies. We will be exploring ways to meet your food needs and make side income from the place you already live!
This course, like other Permaculture Design Courses, is based on an internationally-recognized 72-hour curriculum originally created by Bill Mollison. Each day explores a different topic (soils, plant communities, water, animals, etc) through the permaculture 'lens' of whole-systems thinking.
You will finish with a REALLY good hands-on grasp of how to design, and experience working collaboratively on design projects through understanding the curriculum of Permaculture itselfand leave feeling more confident with your own observation, drawing, and presenting skills.
The format will serve a wide variety of learning styles by rotating between the classroom, the field, hands-on projects, group activities, guest speakers and off-site tours of working models. Participants will receive a certificate of completion upon finishing the final Design Team project of the course.
Our curriculum is designed around a holistic and sociological perspective, in application around a designated hands-on design project as a group.
Workshop include ecological observations and a connection with nature and is facilitated in natural and contrived surroundings, inspiring an intuitive connection to nature and the social focus, that lay the foundation for Permaculture structures. Learn to:
- Have a really good hands-on grasp of how to design
- Experience working collaboratively on design projects
- Understand the curriculum o Permaculture itself
Feel more confident with your own observation, drawing, and presenting skills
Curriculum Highlights:
*Permaculture Principles and Design *Patterns in the Landscape
*Wildcrafting *Mushroom Cultivation
*Soil Ecologies & Composting *Water Harvesting & Management
*Polyculture Gardens *Edible Forest Gardens
*Integrating Livestock *Natural Building
*Appropriate Technologies *Value-Added Permaculture Products and more!
Instructor(s): Dynamic team of 4 experienced instructors plus guest speakers in the Permaculture movement.
Greg Estes - Primary Lead
Tyler "TyTy" Burns - Co-lead
Marilene Richardson - Special Host - 1 day offsite
Zsofia Pasztor - Special Guest Instructor
Along with other great regional expert cameo workshops. Includes a day trip immersion at www.Songcroft.com homestead.
Cost: $1450 cash price; $500 non-refundable deposit; all funds must be received by July 1st. Make checks payable to Tomorrow's Reality and mail to: 395E North Camano Dr., Camano Is WA 98282. Or purchase online with a processing fee at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/357115
Price is for 14 class days to include meals, tent camping, outdoor showers, and WiFi. Co-housing may be arranged.
Recommended to bring: hat, mud boots (wool inserts recommended), gloves (rubber tipped recommended), water bottle, dress in layers. Tent, sleeping bag, pad and pillow. Option for sleeping in non-heated barn, bring sleeping bag, pad and pillow.
About the venue:Shambala Permaculture Farm and Perennial Edible Nursery is the homestead of Nancy and Nick Chase. The farm offers CSA shares through the summer season, nursery stock specializing in perennial vegetables, and a vibrant internship program. The farm is also home to chickens, ducks, goats, horses, and cattle. The goal of the residents is to integrate the permaculture principles into a more holistic farm-ecosystem, while maintaining a financially sustainable livelihood that is a pattern for others to look to. For more see www.shambalafarm.com , and www.facebook.com/shambalafarm -
Amenities: Most of the course participants will be camping, as there is limited indoor space. There are affordable offsite locations for lodging, please ask for details. Most meals will be provided al fresco at our outdoor patio longtable with indoor/outdoor kitchens, curriculum in barn and dome classrooms and on/off site integrated outdoor worksites, with indoor/outdoor shower and toilet options.
The panoramic and remote farm is located conveniently at the northern edge of Camano Island (a drive-on island) in the Puget Sound region of Washington State, near beaches, parks, and other amenities just 1+ hours north of Seattle! 395E North Camano Dr., Camano Is WA 98282, 360 387 4110. View this short video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mGv7RkH7TI&feature=youtu.be to learn more about permaculture and permaculture course hosted last year. You can also visit the website to view a complete list of classes on such things as cob ovens, herb walks and making kimchi.
About the instructors:
Greg Estes our lead instructor, owner of Tomorrow's Reality; Experiential Education and Learning Cooperative, has a deep holistic passion for integrating the needs of people with their environments in a resilient and co-creative form. He is a certified permaculture designer and teacher, has a Bachelors degree in Forest Ecology and has been a practicing landscape/permaculture designer, installer and land manger for the better part of the last 20 years.
After discovering the "permaculture concept" 8 years ago he has been a student, teacher, and collaborator with some of the most forward thinking individuals and organizations across the country.Working with masters such as Peter Bane of the Permaculture Activist, Rick Valley at Lost Valley Ecovillage, Jerome Ostinowski of CRMPI, Mark Shepard of the Forest Agriculture Enterprises, he has been able to apply the concepts and pattern language inherent in the design process to a multitude of scenarios and bring alive the practice of permaculutre in the heart and minds of people across the countryssons across culture and landscape into an applicable package for you to take home to your own home or business.
Zsofia Pasztor will co-lead, owner of Innovative Landscape Technologies is owned by Zsofia Pasztor. She started her company after working decades in the horticultural, arboricultural and construction industries. Her passion is gardening, being in the outdoors and figuring out solutions that benefit people, wildlife, and the environment at the same time. She is a part-time instructor at the Edmonds Community College, a landscape designer, LID construction consultant, certified professional horticulturist, certified tree risk assessor, and an internationally certified arborist. Zsofia volunteers on many projects and takes her students to sites where they can learn to build what they are discussing in the classroom, and is a part-time trainer for Stewardship Partners teaching the public about rain gardens in hands-on workshops.
As a consultant and garden coach, she often works with bioretention solutions, vegetated roofs, living walls, food forests and edible gardens She is one of the few professionals who are Certified Filtrexx Solution Designers. She uses sustainable practices and creates wildlife habitats regardless of the site's size. She is the creator of the'Farmer Frog Model' promoting community based urban farming that protects and restores habitat for people and wildlife at the same time, and a member of the Curriculum Board for the EdCC's Horticulture Department and Rain Garden Coalition of Snohomish County. She is also the past president of the Sustainable Development Task Force of Snohomish County.
Marilene Richardson will be hosting an off site day trip intensive at her homestead. Marilene has lived permaculture most of her life and grows and preserves food for her family, as well as raising animals in a well-integrated system. She has been very active in community endeavors to make local, healthy food available to more people. She teaches classes for WSU Extension, SongCroft Self-Sufficiency Skills School, founded The Foundation for Sustainable community, writes the SongCroft blog and is the happy owner of SongCroft Naturals. http://songcroft.com
Tyler "Ty Ty" Burns will be assistant teaching throughout the course. He is a core member of the Shambala Farm Permaculture team and a lifetime resident of the Northwest. At the 10 acre farm, Tyler and the Shambala Family have co-created an extensive edible and useful plant nursery, distributing local CSA shares with home-grown produce, designing the property to be a permaculture paradise, and building community through effective networking. In addition to working and teaching in the Northwest, Tyler has studied and taught permaculture abroad in southern Africa and knows what it means to "Think Global, Act Local".
Nancy Chase, owner of Shambala Farm and Nursery will be your hostess, head chef, instructor, and course program administrator. She comes from 30 years in the international hospitality industry as a tour operator, and is accustomed to accommodating groups of people at Shambala conscientiously with a community farm living program, inviting partners and associates to reside on site for permacultural projects, community and business developments together, and offering extended stay workshops year-around.
Shambala is a movement in our community as much as it is a physical placewhile we provide you the highest-quality permaculture solutions with our interesting election of useful plants and landscape design services, we are also forging community bonds by opening up our venue for hosting dialogue about our environment and local needs.
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LocationShambala Permaculture Farm and Nursery (View)
395E North Camano Drive
Camano Island, WA 98282
United States
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